John Dowland's Lute Songs: Third and Fourth Books with Original Tablature (Dover Song Collections) [Paperback]

John Dowland (Author), David Nadal (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 3, 2002 | Series: Dover Song Collections

Unsurpassed in his day as a lute virtuoso, John Dowland (1563–1626) today continues to delight singers, musicians, and music lovers alike. This collection of 45 songs includes all the works in Dowland's original third and fourth books of lute songs, the composer's contributions to his son's anthology of 1610, and a dance for solo guitar.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications (May 3, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486422445
• ISBN-13: 978-0486422442
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #310,020 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Complete, accurate, and inexpensive, July 13, 2008

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This review is from: John Dowland's Lute Songs: Third and Fourth Books with Original Tablature (Dover Song Collections) (Paperback)

These Dowland books are ideal: complete, accurate, and inexpensive.

The only problem is a random editorial decison by which a few of the songs are notated "at pitch", which means the editor has arranged the music for guitar rather than writing it as it would lie on lute. This means a guitarist interested in maintaining Dowland's fingerings would have to redo the transcriptions. Still, a very valuable resource to own!!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Table of Contents, April 21, 2011

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M.J. Fiori "Melissa" (Boulder, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: John Dowland's Lute Songs: Third and Fourth Books with Original Tablature (Dover Song Collections) (Paperback)

THE THIRD AND LAST BOOKE

I. Farewell too fair

II. Time stands still

III. Behold a wonder here

IV. Daphne was not so chaste

V. "Me, me and none but me"

VI. When Phoebus first did Daphne love

VII. Say Love if ever thou didst find

VIII. Flow not so fast ye fountains

IX. What if I never speed?

X. Love stood amaz'd

XI. Lend your ears to my sorrow

XII. By a fountain where I lay

XIII. Oh what hath overwrought

XIV. Farewell unkind farewell

XV. "Weep you no more, sad fountains"

XVI. Fie on this feigning

XVII. I must complain

XVIII It was a time when silly bees could speak

XIX. The lowest trees have tops

XX. What poor astronomers are they

XXI. Come when I call (for two voices and two lutes)

A PILGRIMES SOLACE

I. Disdain me still

II. Sweet stay awhile

III. To ask for all thy love

IV. Love those beams

V. "Shall I strive with words to move" ("Mignarda, a galliard" is Dowland's title for the solo lute version of the lyre "Shall I strive with words to move.")

VI. Were every thought an eye

VII. Stay Time awhile thy flying

VIII. Tell me true Love (with chorus)

The next three with treble and bass viols for violin and cello:

IX. Go nightly cares

X. From silent night

XI. Lasso vita mia

XII. In this trembling shadow

XIII. If that a sinner's sighs

A three-part work:

XIV. Thou mighty God

XV. When David's life

XVI. When the poor cripple

XVII. Where sin sore wounding

XVIII. My heart and tongue were twins

The next with chorus:

XIX. Up merry mates

XX. Welcome black night

XXI. Cease these false sports

"THREE AYRES FROM "A MUSICALL BANQUET"

Far from triumphing Court

Lady if you so spite me

In darkness let me dwell

GALLIART TO LACHRIMAE

"A lute solo from A Pilgrimes Solace, transcribed for guitar"

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Renaissance music still enjoyable today, January 13, 2011

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Nice guitar arrangements of the original lute music. Some fingering indications to indicate which voices to sustain would be helpful as in many cases it is impossible to sustain full note values indicated in the standard notation.